File doesn't close properly w/ fstream command.

[bishop74]

I have been trying to fstream an .htm file from one program to another. I copy the function perfectly from one file to another, but the new file will not work unless I open it up in notepad and save the file. Has anyone seen this before? Shouldn't the file save itself after the

outFilez.close();

function? I wil post the script if need be, but it is pretty ugly. Let me know if that will help.

Plz help. Thanks,
Dave

 

[2ffat]

Have you flushed the buffer? Close should flush it but anything can happen.
James P. Cottingham

I am the Unknown lead by the Unknowing.
I have done so much with so little
for so long that I am now qualified
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[bishop74]

Don't know what ya mean Gene. How do you flush the buffer?

 

[2ffat]

Suppose the your fstream is named "MyFileStream." Your output could look like:

MyFileStream << Something;

where "Something" is whatever you are outputting to the file. If "MyFileStram" was a text or ascii file, you could add endl to the stream because that not only adds a CR/NL to the file but also flushes the buffer.

Since you are outputting a binary file, you don't want to add any CR/NL feeds to the file, so you simply add

 MyFileStream << flush;

before closing the file. Note: you could also do

MyFileStream << Something << flush;

, too. James P. Cottingham

I am the Unknown lead by the Unknowing.
I have done so much with so little
for so long that I am now qualified
to do anything with nothing.

 

[bishop74]

Actually, I am outputting a text file... its html. The endl worked, but it looks ugly now when I view the html file because I have it do an endl everytime it encounters a space. Is there another command to get it to empty it's buffer with out any file manipulation like that?

Thanks in advance,
Dave

 

[2ffat]

Have you tried the flush without the endl?
James P. Cottingham

I am the Unknown lead by the Unknowing.
I have done so much with so little
for so long that I am now qualified
to do anything with nothing.